Places in London

Chet Sharma's one-Michelin-star Mayfair Indian, the JKS room that reframed regional Indian cooking in 2021.

The 1893 hotel bar that wrote the cocktail manual the rest of London still reads

Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking

A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline

JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street, Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves.

Tomos Parry's Michelin-starred Beak Street wood-fired room, the Basque grill that Brat became Soho-confident in

Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001

Agostino Perrone's silver-trolley martini and a room that has spent a decade at or near the top of the World's 50 Best Bars list.

Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026

Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room, the most considered cooking south-west of the river.

Beirut's Mireille Hayek inside Harrods, the polished Lebanese set-menu room that translates Em Sherif Beirut's standard for SW1.

Since 1742, Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else.